covaithe
Explorer
I can't speak for Sacrifice to Caiphon. I don't recall the reasoning on that off the top of my head, and I'm not interested in looking at it again unless someone proposes changing it.
I voted against reaper's touch not because I thought it was unbalanced -- it's clearly not -- but because I thought it made the game less fun, by reducing the diversity of characters. If any ranged caster can get a powerful basic melee attack just for the price of one feat, I think there's a likelihood of it becoming a must-have feat, like implement expertise. Which reduces player choice and produces homogenous characters, and makes this whole thing less fun.
I'm sorry you disagree, but at some point someone has to make a decision, and for my sins, part of that task has fallen to me. I'm doing my best to make the right decision as I see it. If you think I'm doing a terrible job, well... we've got a stack of character reviews that need doing, and we'll have even more when PHB2 comes live. It's no coincidence that people who help out with character reviews for a while often find themselves on the judge list.
I voted against reaper's touch not because I thought it was unbalanced -- it's clearly not -- but because I thought it made the game less fun, by reducing the diversity of characters. If any ranged caster can get a powerful basic melee attack just for the price of one feat, I think there's a likelihood of it becoming a must-have feat, like implement expertise. Which reduces player choice and produces homogenous characters, and makes this whole thing less fun.
I'm sorry you disagree, but at some point someone has to make a decision, and for my sins, part of that task has fallen to me. I'm doing my best to make the right decision as I see it. If you think I'm doing a terrible job, well... we've got a stack of character reviews that need doing, and we'll have even more when PHB2 comes live. It's no coincidence that people who help out with character reviews for a while often find themselves on the judge list.